Rosette for electric-light wires.



'PATENTED MAE. 27, 190e.

J.' E.` PARKER.

I RosETTE EOE ELECTRIC LIGHT WIRES.

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ErLIoATIoN FILED PEE. 2o. 1905.

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AUNITED sTATEs PATENT OEEIOE.

p No. 316,033.

Application liled February 20, 1905- Serial No. 24E/,527.

Specicaton of Letters Patent.

Patented March 2'7, .1906.

To all whom t may con/cern:

Be it known that I, JOHN HENRY PARKER, of Saugus', in the county of Essex and State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improved Rosette Jfor Electric-Light Wires, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making a part hereof, in which- Figure l is a plan of my improved rosette in the best form now known to me. Fig. 2 is a section on line 2 2 of Fig. .1. Fig. 3 is a sec- Figs. 4 and 5 show a modification. n

My invention is a rosette whose bodypart iis preferablymade of porcelain and consists of two main portions-namely, the base 1 and the arch 2-formed near its middle With the 'cord-hole A, the essence of the matter being that the archway is practically unobstructed, as best shown in Fig. 2, to make three entrances or exits B and B for the branches of the lamp-cords a a and the centralcord-hole A, near the middle of the arch 2, for the two lamp-cords a a `beyond the knot b, the hole A being so .much smaller than' the entrances or exits B B as to allow the lamp-cords a a/ to be readily secured to the contacts 3, which may be, as usual, the knots l) to be tied, and the lamp-cords to extend through the hole A in such wise that strain on the lampcords is all taken off of the branches a a and thrown on the knot or knots b l), for it will be clear that vthe lamp cords may extend singly or twisted together through the hole A, then through a knot t, one in each branch a a, as

shown in dotted lines in Fig. 5, and also clear that the knots formed in the branches a a may be so connected as to form a single knot,

simplicity, but possesses the reat advantage of reducing the labor of app ying the lampcords to the minimum, while it also makes certain that the strain which comes on the lamp-cords as they extend from the exterior surface about thehole A is borne wholly by the knot or knots within the archway B B and Wholly removed from the branches@ a/ and the bared ends of those branches which connect with the contacts 3.

In Figs. 4 and 5 I show a modified form of my invention in which the rosette is in two parts, l0 and 20, the archway between them permitting the manipulation ofthe cords.

-What I claim as my invention is A rosette for electric-light wires comprising a base; an arch with a cord-hole near its middle, the arch extending across the base and forming with the base a continuous archvway for the reception and manipulation of the lamp-cords, the archway being of subv stantially uniform .size throu hout and having end openings which are arger than the cord-hole and through which the branches extend to their contacts; all arranged to admit of the knotting of the branches oi the lamp-cord and of `the arrangement in the archway of both lamp-cords with reference to the cord-hole and the arrangement of thebranches each with reference to its contact,

substantially as described. l

JOHN HENRY PARKER.

'Witnessesz C. B. MAYNADIER,

G. A. ROOKWELL. 

